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The purpose of this conference is to discuss the properties of grammar and variation from a biolinguistic perspective, bringing together biologists, neuroscientists, and linguists, for three days of conference. The conference aims at exploring further the factors that according to Chomsky (2006) contribute to the growth of language in the individual, the genetic endowment, experience, and language independent principles of efficient computation, focusing on the factors contributing to language evolution and variation.

Sponsors: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Interface Asymmetries, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

Call for Papers In addition to the invited talks, a small number of papers will be accepted for presentation at the conference. We invite submissions for thirty-minute talks (20 minutes for presentation plus 10 minutes for questions) on research focusing on the biolinguistic approach to language evolution and variation. A representative, but not exhaustive, list of topics for potential papers include the following:

-The architectural constraints that determine and limit possible attainable languages -Language dependent and independent principles determining language growth -The properties of pronunciation and interpretation of copies and the relation of the internal language to the interfaces.

The 17th Annual Conference of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS)will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, Aug. 31 to Sept. 2, 2007. Abstracts are now being accepted. Topics may be on any issue related to the analysis of languages in the region of Southeast Asia. Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings.